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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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